In recent times, the cloud has become a leading technology demanding its functionality in every business. According to research firm IDC and Gartner study, nearly one-third of the worldwide enterprise application market will be SaaS-based by 2018, driving annual SaaS revenue to $50.8 billion, from $22.6 billion in 2013. Downtime is treated as the primary drawback which may affect great deals in businesses. The service unavailability leads to a major disruption affecting the business environment. Hence, utmost care should be taken to scale the availability of services. As cloud computing has plenty of uncertainty with respect to network bandwidth and resources accessibility, delegating the computing resources as services should be scheduled accordingly. This chapter proposes a study on cloud of clouds and its impact on a business enterprise. It is also decided to propose a suitable scheduling algorithm to the cloud of cloud environment so as to trim the downtime problem faced by the cloud computing environment.
Cost-Aware Scheduling Algorithm Based on PSO in Cloud Computing Environment
